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the colgate maroon founded 1868 vol lviii colgate university hamilton n v ~ friday nov iÎ² 1 b2s no s colgate crushes syracuse 19-6 tryon thrills record crowd in last orange tilt by brilliant mud-horse work with great team using a steady highly conservative opportunist style the unde feated maroon eleven led by her great halfback captain eddie tryon decisively triumphed over her traditional orange rival by a score of 19-6 on saturday before 30,000 spectators who jammed every nook and cranny of the archbold stadium three days of steady rain had converted the gridiron into a veritable swamp and colgate elected to play a punting game and allow her opponents to fumble the slimy oval thereby saving the effort of attempting to advance the ball by offensive tactics through the five-inch layer of water and mire the success of this plan of battle materialized like the events of a well planned novel and colgate's first two touchdowns were indirect results of orange miscues but much more directly the results of the brilliancy of captain eddie tryon and the perfection which marked the offen sive play of the maroon team when within striking distance it was a great big colgate and tryon day in every sense of the word no more than fifteen plays of the memorable struggle had been run off when the phenomenal maroon leader on a shift play raced 12 yards off-tackle for a touchdown so perfect was the execution of the colgate team and so swift was tryon's get-away and magnificent burst of speed that not an orange player managed to lay a finger on the maroon-clad wizard then encased in mud the counter was made possible by the recovery of a syracuse fumble on the orange 20-yard mark by lloyd beuthel star colgate guard the second maroon touchdown early in the third period resulted from the seizing of another syracuse fumble by joe bray on the orange 47-yard line shaugh nessy battering sophomore fullback registered a first down with three smashing drives into the syracuse line and a char acteristically brilliant end run by tryon carried the leather to the 28-yard mark the stage was set for the sensational and captain"eddie tryon who is a thrill pro vider of national fame made one of the greatest contributions of his career this stocky little maroon ace behind an impenetrable wave of remarkable inter ference dashed again off tackle and into the open field eluded four would-be orange tacklers played tag with the side-lines cut back toward the center of the field and crossed the line unhampered for the second colgate touchdown it was the outstanding individual performance of the afternoon and literally stunned the vast throng of 80,000 spectators the linal maroon tally came after about live minutes of the fourth period had elapsed as a result of a blocked punt by levinson diminutive colgate end and a recovery by abe mankat over the orange line carr of syracuse had drop ped far behind his own goal line to kick the maroon forwards broke through and levinson blocked the attempt completely the ball wriggling toward the bleachers behind the orange goal following a mad scramble in which the elusiveness of the water-soaked oval played a major role mankat registered the capture and i colgate touchdown tryon added the point the lone syracuse counter came ti a well-earned tribute to the fighting qualities of a great orange eleven tryon from well in the rear of his own goal line managed to hoist the water-logged pigskin but thiil yards ii the colgate 20-yard line from which meister tore oil a pretty 11-yard re turn a line thrust by meister and a col gate penalty placed the leather on the tvu fmt mark and carr bucked it over during the game tryon handled the oval seventeen times lor the purpose of advanc ing by dint of his evasive two ligs he lugged the ball lor a total of 148 yards gained an average of well over eight and one-half yards ilis punting saved the situation lime and time again and was varsity faces crucial test in brown game colgate to defend high honors as brown seeks to avenge earlier defeats colgate will enjoy a brief rest during the next few days but it will be very brief in deed as with the final tussle of the grid calendar but a week away the team must not only be rested but change its objective from syracuse to brown in brown the maroon will meet a team defeated by the eastern leaders but a team that on paper is one of the best in the country they have the material and every member of the team is well equipped as to experience brown has been treated to a rather hectic season it has been defeated by harvard yale pennsylvania and the impregnable dartmouth team but it can not be exp pected that a team meeting such teams as these would go through a season unde feated et there is a stigma in the record which is bound to cause a turn some where with the result that with colgate of fering it a last chance to redeem itself in the eyes of the eastern grid world it will make a superhuman drive for this game but one week away the team at brown is not a poor team at the start of the season the bears were looked upon to possess the greatest possi bilities of any team east of the alleghenies it has men of experience and men of tal ent who are without doubt among the best in truth the brown team of this year is made up of about the same men who last season defeated colgate 20-6 last year brown had a great line and a great backfield that played among the best of them with a great deal of success at the ends brown was fortified the best of any team to face colgate in the back field they had keefer payor dixon and a number of others these men are all back and playing regular in the backfield captain jim stifler and broda are a great pair of ends stifler is big rangy and fast in not only getting down under punts but in taking passes from the air broda while not the equal of stifler is a fine end who would be capable of making a place on any college team with this heavy pair of ends charging in upon eddie tryon the maroon supporters will receive another of those thrills when the colgate leader meets a strenuous battle coming back to the games in which this brown team lost one cannot help but say that dame fortune has played her a mean trick for bad breaks lost both the dart mouth and harvard games three times during the dartmouth game the keefer payor and dixon trio had brought the ball to within the shadow of the dart mouth goal only to have the only inex perienced man on the brown team the center hurl it over the kicker's head and give the ball to the hanover collegians about thirty yards back from where the bears were about to make another first down in the harvard game two brown advances were stopped and cut short by fumbles when brown was making a des perate i.ffensive drive to wipe out the margin of three points made by harvard in the early periods the center sweep of brown is an experienced trio except for getz who is lilling the shoes left vacant by dolph changes in calendar will balance vacations christmas vacation shortenedâ€”thanks giving recess assured several changes in the calendar of the university are to be found in the annual catalogue for 1926 which is now ready for distribution at the office of the registrar the wednesday noon to monday morning thanksgiving recess finds a place in the new calendar but the christmas recess is shortened by two or three days it is scheduled to begin tuesday december 22 at noon and to end tuesday january 5 at 8 o'clock in the morning washing ton's birthday february 22 is not men tioned in the calendar as being a holiday college work for the year will close june 11 1926 this is about a week earlier than heretofore in order that stu dents working during the summer will have more of an opportunity to secure suit able work the earlier closing of school in june was made possible by an equal earlier opening of school this fall the honors course system which was instituted last spring is described in the new catalogue with the rules of the system and descriptions of the work offered by the various departments in which honors courses are now being given in regard to the regular courses of instruction a few changes are to be noted harriers lose to orange in race over muddy course perfect score registered by syracuse squad against maroon defeated in the last race by the syra cuse university harriers on the orange 5-mile course the colgate cross-country team ended a season of two victories and four defeats saturday morning eight orange harriers crossed the finish line together for the first perfect score in the history of the syracuse 1925 season 29 minutes 40 seconds after the gun had been fired making a 15 to 40 tally against the maroon they were captain al gott leib clinton loucks kenneth rupert oliver proudlock john bell eric faigle samuel goldberg and harold kotz all veteran runners of a team which has not met a defeat so far this season it was this combination which gave pittsburg a team which held the eastern intercollegiate championship last season one of the most decisive defeats which cross-country run ning has ever seen in view of this fact the showing made by the maroon harriers was not a humil iating as it seemed j c smith who has been improving steadily throughout the season finished first for colgate with the time of 30 minutes 50 seconds he was followed closely by captain judd kings bury and rosa krehl and robinson failed to finish due to the condition of the course which was in almost the same con dition as the gridiron on which the orange and the maroon elevens battled the same afternoon running ankle deep in mud over a very hilly and stiff course proved an insurmountable handicap to the maroon freshmen complete season with victory over minlius touchdown in first ftve minutes of play only score of game the colgate freshman football eleven won its last game of the season friday de feating the manlius military academy team 6-0 at manlius the lone touch down was scored by ted smith yearling captain during the first five minutes of play after a cadet fumble on their own 45-yard line it was the first touchdown scored by the maroon first year men this season and the freshmen were thus able to conclude their season without the shutout which had been expected the freshmen showed their best offensive tactics during the first period following the manlius fumble they marched through the cadet line for 45 yards bucks and tackle plays being the only ones called the manlius team rallied during the second half and on two occasions brought the ball to the maroon 10-yard line only to lose possession of it because of poor generalship the team showed great improvement over previous games of the season the backfield quartet seemed at last to have found itself captain smith vaughn gere and laumeister all playing fine colgate inn holds formal opening thursday evening prominent colgate men included among speakers at banquet following the informal opening wed nesday night the new colgate inn was formally opened thursday night with a dinner at which were present a number of prominent colgate alumni and influential townspeople in addition to directors of the new hostelry at the thursday night dinner the speakers were dr george b cutten president of the university james c col gate president of the board of trustees julian migel noted colgate alumnus and president of the alumni athletic council ellery huntington jr william lippitt and roy p hrainard manager of the hotel syracuse kay lirooks alumni secretary presided over the dinner dr cutten as the lirst speaker congratu lated all those immediately concerned with the accomplishment of building the new inn and stated that the inn would he a spiritual center as well as a hotel for it would harbor a large number of football fans during the season this should work for the benefit of all concerned for as dr cutten said football games are to a college what war is to a country it is the nucleus around which centers the thought and spirit of the university the theme of the address by james c colgate second speaker of the evening was that since the new hostelry is for both students and people of the town the townspeople should be kind to the students who will he in turn be an uplifting influ ence for as the speaker said molasses catches more flies than vinegar every time and a kindly suggestion is better alumni day brings scores to pre-game exercises dr a p brigham honored with ll.d degreeâ€”mass meeting in gym coming from all parts of the country near and far scores of colgate alumni re turned to help the maroon to victory over the orange following custom friday was set aside as alumni day no classes being held after the chapel period the balance of the day being given over to re unions and other functions in which alumni and students joined hands the day was started off with an inspiring chapel period while students and alumni gathered in the chapel and sang colgate songs together the faculty donned official cap and gown and marched in procession down the aisles to their seats on the platform the regular chapel exercises were then held and following this dr cut ten addressed the assembly giving a statement of the standing of the institution at the present time after outlining the growth of the university during the time he has been president and pointing out a few needs that still exist in spite of the splendid support given by the alumni dr cutten concluded his remarks with a welcome to the alumni and then intro duced james c colgate pesident of the board of trustees mr colgate com mented on the report stating that he wished to see all the needs fulfilled he lauded dr cutten for his conscientious work in making colgate an institution with an a rating george v cobb president of the alumni corporation was then called upon for a few words and in his usual genial and winning manner called upon both student body and graduates to expend their utmost efforts in the cause immediately before them a well as in the continual upbuilding of the university george " was all afire over the game and the sparks chipped off in his words landed with noticeable results among tin assem bled students file meeting was then turned over to dean crawahaw who called for dr brigham professor emeritus of geology to present himself while the entire assem bly stood in dr brigham's honor dr continued on page 3 continued on page 5 continued on page 3 continued on page 5 continued on page 3 continued on page 4

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the colgate maroon founded 1868 vol lviii colgate university hamilton n v ~ friday nov iÎ² 1 b2s no s colgate crushes syracuse 19-6 tryon thrills record crowd in last orange tilt by brilliant mud-horse work with great team using a steady highly conservative opportunist style the unde feated maroon eleven led by her great halfback captain eddie tryon decisively triumphed over her traditional orange rival by a score of 19-6 on saturday before 30,000 spectators who jammed every nook and cranny of the archbold stadium three days of steady rain had converted the gridiron into a veritable swamp and colgate elected to play a punting game and allow her opponents to fumble the slimy oval thereby saving the effort of attempting to advance the ball by offensive tactics through the five-inch layer of water and mire the success of this plan of battle materialized like the events of a well planned novel and colgate's first two touchdowns were indirect results of orange miscues but much more directly the results of the brilliancy of captain eddie tryon and the perfection which marked the offen sive play of the maroon team when within striking distance it was a great big colgate and tryon day in every sense of the word no more than fifteen plays of the memorable struggle had been run off when the phenomenal maroon leader on a shift play raced 12 yards off-tackle for a touchdown so perfect was the execution of the colgate team and so swift was tryon's get-away and magnificent burst of speed that not an orange player managed to lay a finger on the maroon-clad wizard then encased in mud the counter was made possible by the recovery of a syracuse fumble on the orange 20-yard mark by lloyd beuthel star colgate guard the second maroon touchdown early in the third period resulted from the seizing of another syracuse fumble by joe bray on the orange 47-yard line shaugh nessy battering sophomore fullback registered a first down with three smashing drives into the syracuse line and a char acteristically brilliant end run by tryon carried the leather to the 28-yard mark the stage was set for the sensational and captain"eddie tryon who is a thrill pro vider of national fame made one of the greatest contributions of his career this stocky little maroon ace behind an impenetrable wave of remarkable inter ference dashed again off tackle and into the open field eluded four would-be orange tacklers played tag with the side-lines cut back toward the center of the field and crossed the line unhampered for the second colgate touchdown it was the outstanding individual performance of the afternoon and literally stunned the vast throng of 80,000 spectators the linal maroon tally came after about live minutes of the fourth period had elapsed as a result of a blocked punt by levinson diminutive colgate end and a recovery by abe mankat over the orange line carr of syracuse had drop ped far behind his own goal line to kick the maroon forwards broke through and levinson blocked the attempt completely the ball wriggling toward the bleachers behind the orange goal following a mad scramble in which the elusiveness of the water-soaked oval played a major role mankat registered the capture and i colgate touchdown tryon added the point the lone syracuse counter came ti a well-earned tribute to the fighting qualities of a great orange eleven tryon from well in the rear of his own goal line managed to hoist the water-logged pigskin but thiil yards ii the colgate 20-yard line from which meister tore oil a pretty 11-yard re turn a line thrust by meister and a col gate penalty placed the leather on the tvu fmt mark and carr bucked it over during the game tryon handled the oval seventeen times lor the purpose of advanc ing by dint of his evasive two ligs he lugged the ball lor a total of 148 yards gained an average of well over eight and one-half yards ilis punting saved the situation lime and time again and was varsity faces crucial test in brown game colgate to defend high honors as brown seeks to avenge earlier defeats colgate will enjoy a brief rest during the next few days but it will be very brief in deed as with the final tussle of the grid calendar but a week away the team must not only be rested but change its objective from syracuse to brown in brown the maroon will meet a team defeated by the eastern leaders but a team that on paper is one of the best in the country they have the material and every member of the team is well equipped as to experience brown has been treated to a rather hectic season it has been defeated by harvard yale pennsylvania and the impregnable dartmouth team but it can not be exp pected that a team meeting such teams as these would go through a season unde feated et there is a stigma in the record which is bound to cause a turn some where with the result that with colgate of fering it a last chance to redeem itself in the eyes of the eastern grid world it will make a superhuman drive for this game but one week away the team at brown is not a poor team at the start of the season the bears were looked upon to possess the greatest possi bilities of any team east of the alleghenies it has men of experience and men of tal ent who are without doubt among the best in truth the brown team of this year is made up of about the same men who last season defeated colgate 20-6 last year brown had a great line and a great backfield that played among the best of them with a great deal of success at the ends brown was fortified the best of any team to face colgate in the back field they had keefer payor dixon and a number of others these men are all back and playing regular in the backfield captain jim stifler and broda are a great pair of ends stifler is big rangy and fast in not only getting down under punts but in taking passes from the air broda while not the equal of stifler is a fine end who would be capable of making a place on any college team with this heavy pair of ends charging in upon eddie tryon the maroon supporters will receive another of those thrills when the colgate leader meets a strenuous battle coming back to the games in which this brown team lost one cannot help but say that dame fortune has played her a mean trick for bad breaks lost both the dart mouth and harvard games three times during the dartmouth game the keefer payor and dixon trio had brought the ball to within the shadow of the dart mouth goal only to have the only inex perienced man on the brown team the center hurl it over the kicker's head and give the ball to the hanover collegians about thirty yards back from where the bears were about to make another first down in the harvard game two brown advances were stopped and cut short by fumbles when brown was making a des perate i.ffensive drive to wipe out the margin of three points made by harvard in the early periods the center sweep of brown is an experienced trio except for getz who is lilling the shoes left vacant by dolph changes in calendar will balance vacations christmas vacation shortenedâ€”thanks giving recess assured several changes in the calendar of the university are to be found in the annual catalogue for 1926 which is now ready for distribution at the office of the registrar the wednesday noon to monday morning thanksgiving recess finds a place in the new calendar but the christmas recess is shortened by two or three days it is scheduled to begin tuesday december 22 at noon and to end tuesday january 5 at 8 o'clock in the morning washing ton's birthday february 22 is not men tioned in the calendar as being a holiday college work for the year will close june 11 1926 this is about a week earlier than heretofore in order that stu dents working during the summer will have more of an opportunity to secure suit able work the earlier closing of school in june was made possible by an equal earlier opening of school this fall the honors course system which was instituted last spring is described in the new catalogue with the rules of the system and descriptions of the work offered by the various departments in which honors courses are now being given in regard to the regular courses of instruction a few changes are to be noted harriers lose to orange in race over muddy course perfect score registered by syracuse squad against maroon defeated in the last race by the syra cuse university harriers on the orange 5-mile course the colgate cross-country team ended a season of two victories and four defeats saturday morning eight orange harriers crossed the finish line together for the first perfect score in the history of the syracuse 1925 season 29 minutes 40 seconds after the gun had been fired making a 15 to 40 tally against the maroon they were captain al gott leib clinton loucks kenneth rupert oliver proudlock john bell eric faigle samuel goldberg and harold kotz all veteran runners of a team which has not met a defeat so far this season it was this combination which gave pittsburg a team which held the eastern intercollegiate championship last season one of the most decisive defeats which cross-country run ning has ever seen in view of this fact the showing made by the maroon harriers was not a humil iating as it seemed j c smith who has been improving steadily throughout the season finished first for colgate with the time of 30 minutes 50 seconds he was followed closely by captain judd kings bury and rosa krehl and robinson failed to finish due to the condition of the course which was in almost the same con dition as the gridiron on which the orange and the maroon elevens battled the same afternoon running ankle deep in mud over a very hilly and stiff course proved an insurmountable handicap to the maroon freshmen complete season with victory over minlius touchdown in first ftve minutes of play only score of game the colgate freshman football eleven won its last game of the season friday de feating the manlius military academy team 6-0 at manlius the lone touch down was scored by ted smith yearling captain during the first five minutes of play after a cadet fumble on their own 45-yard line it was the first touchdown scored by the maroon first year men this season and the freshmen were thus able to conclude their season without the shutout which had been expected the freshmen showed their best offensive tactics during the first period following the manlius fumble they marched through the cadet line for 45 yards bucks and tackle plays being the only ones called the manlius team rallied during the second half and on two occasions brought the ball to the maroon 10-yard line only to lose possession of it because of poor generalship the team showed great improvement over previous games of the season the backfield quartet seemed at last to have found itself captain smith vaughn gere and laumeister all playing fine colgate inn holds formal opening thursday evening prominent colgate men included among speakers at banquet following the informal opening wed nesday night the new colgate inn was formally opened thursday night with a dinner at which were present a number of prominent colgate alumni and influential townspeople in addition to directors of the new hostelry at the thursday night dinner the speakers were dr george b cutten president of the university james c col gate president of the board of trustees julian migel noted colgate alumnus and president of the alumni athletic council ellery huntington jr william lippitt and roy p hrainard manager of the hotel syracuse kay lirooks alumni secretary presided over the dinner dr cutten as the lirst speaker congratu lated all those immediately concerned with the accomplishment of building the new inn and stated that the inn would he a spiritual center as well as a hotel for it would harbor a large number of football fans during the season this should work for the benefit of all concerned for as dr cutten said football games are to a college what war is to a country it is the nucleus around which centers the thought and spirit of the university the theme of the address by james c colgate second speaker of the evening was that since the new hostelry is for both students and people of the town the townspeople should be kind to the students who will he in turn be an uplifting influ ence for as the speaker said molasses catches more flies than vinegar every time and a kindly suggestion is better alumni day brings scores to pre-game exercises dr a p brigham honored with ll.d degreeâ€”mass meeting in gym coming from all parts of the country near and far scores of colgate alumni re turned to help the maroon to victory over the orange following custom friday was set aside as alumni day no classes being held after the chapel period the balance of the day being given over to re unions and other functions in which alumni and students joined hands the day was started off with an inspiring chapel period while students and alumni gathered in the chapel and sang colgate songs together the faculty donned official cap and gown and marched in procession down the aisles to their seats on the platform the regular chapel exercises were then held and following this dr cut ten addressed the assembly giving a statement of the standing of the institution at the present time after outlining the growth of the university during the time he has been president and pointing out a few needs that still exist in spite of the splendid support given by the alumni dr cutten concluded his remarks with a welcome to the alumni and then intro duced james c colgate pesident of the board of trustees mr colgate com mented on the report stating that he wished to see all the needs fulfilled he lauded dr cutten for his conscientious work in making colgate an institution with an a rating george v cobb president of the alumni corporation was then called upon for a few words and in his usual genial and winning manner called upon both student body and graduates to expend their utmost efforts in the cause immediately before them a well as in the continual upbuilding of the university george " was all afire over the game and the sparks chipped off in his words landed with noticeable results among tin assem bled students file meeting was then turned over to dean crawahaw who called for dr brigham professor emeritus of geology to present himself while the entire assem bly stood in dr brigham's honor dr continued on page 3 continued on page 5 continued on page 3 continued on page 5 continued on page 3 continued on page 4